Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell Negotan starring Remake of 'Single White Female'

Sony Pictures and 3000 Pictures have launched A remake of the iconic 1992 thriller, Single White Femaleknown in our market as Single woman looking.

Studies establish negotiations with Jenna Ortega (Wednesday, Scream) y Taylor Russell (Bones and All, Escape Room) to assume The leading roles of this new versionthat for the moment, it does not have a confirmed director.

The development of the project is found in the early stages (via The Insneider).

The original film, directed by Barbet Schroeder, was starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The plot follows Allison “Allie” Jones (Fonda), a software designer resident in New York, who is looking for a floor partner after discovering that her fiance Sam Rawson (Steven Weber), with whom she lives, deceives her. Allie welcomes her new tenant, Hedra Carlson (Leigh) and quickly establishes a close relationship with her new partner. However, while Allison reconsiders his break with Sam, his partner gets jealous and violent.

It was based on the novel SWF Seeks Same by John Lutz, published in 1990. Lutz wrote the script with Don Roos. The film had a sequel Single White Female 2: The Psychostarring Kristen Miller who had a direct launch home.

Columbia Pictures de Sony, distributed the original film, which raised $ 48 million in the United States. It had a budget of $ 16 million.

Ortega has been part of film projects such as horror delivery Slasher Scream, Scream VI, The Babysitter: Killer Queeny Xthe sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceand the newly released Death of a Unicorn of A24. Later we will see it in the second season of Wednesdaytaking up his role as Merlina, in the thriller Hurry Up Tomorrowy The Gallerist from Cathy Yan.

Russell for his part, he won the recognition of critics in the drama Waves by Trey Edward Schults, in addition to starring Escape Room and the sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Championsthe Cannibal Love Story Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino, the tragicomedy Mother, Couchand papers in the series Lost in Space y Falling Skies. Recently it was signed to star in the reboot of The Thomas Crown Affair which will be directed by Michael B. Jordan.